If stuffing: Blend well to make a paste of all the garnishing ingredients.

METHOD

Blend to get dal paste. Mix onion– ginger paste and salt to taste. Smear non sticktava and make small pancakes with spoonfuls of paste. Garnish or stuff as shown as per your choice. Serve hot with tomato ketchup.

10 DEGREES DIP

10 degrees dip

Ingredients and quantities:

200 ml fresh cream

4 tbsps fresh curds

1 tbsp honey

A few drops of apple cider vinegar

Salt, crushed pepper, chilli flakes and oregano to taste

1 cup grated carrot and cucumber.

Method

Whip a mixture of above. Decorate and serve chilled.

BLACK SESAME SEEDS LADDOOS

Black sesame seeds laddoos.

Ingredients and quantities:

250 gms each jaggery and black sesame seeds

4 tbsp pure ghee

Method

In a non-stick pan roast sesame seeds. Remove and melt ghee. Add and melt jaggery. Add the roasted seeds and quickly mix well and remove from fire. Grease palms and make small laddoos when the mixture cools down a bit. It tastes divine and seeds are a good source of energy due to the high and healthy fat content like polyunsaturated fatty acids and Omega-6.

Take small dough balls and roll out into puris. Hold them in your palms. Wet the edges with water (or a tsp of maidasoked in 2 tsp of water). Fill a sizable amount of mixture. Roll into a semicircular, seal the edges twisting the top edges or with a forked spoon. Deep fry in ghee till golden brown. Remains fresh for a week

LOW GLYCAEMIC INDEX ROLLS

Low glycaemic index rolls.

Ingredients and quantities:

Grind to coarse paste:

1 cup each soaked kidney beans and black chanas

1/2 cup onion slices,

2 green chillies,

1 inch piece ginge,

2 tbsp chopped fresh coriander,

2 slices of brown bread and salt to taste.

Oil to fry

Method

Shape the mixture into desired shapes and deep fry. Despite the fact it is a fried snack. It is healthy because the ingredients have low glycaemic index.

(Spring onions bulbs) – Immersed in cold water for 1 hr to open up the layers.

METHOD

Blend the soaked dal to a fine paste in a mixer without adding much water. Drop spoonfuls of dumpling ingredients to make idlis at microwave high for 8 minutes. Saute chopped onion in a spoon of butter/ghee in a non- stick pan. Add green pond paste. Cook the spinach till it is medium flowing consistency. Keep aside. Arrange the dumplings in a dish. Pour the green gravy over. Sprinkle onion slices. Prick in lotus flowers to serve hot.